Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Manganese

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Original - Pure (99.99 %) manganese chips, electrolytically refined, typical view of on air oxidized surface, as well as a high purity (99.99 % = 4N) 1 cm3 manganese cube for comparison.
Reason
High quality, high EV
Articles in which this image appears
Manganese, Group 7 element
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Sciences/Materials science
Creator
Alchemist-hp
All of them I think are refined, but in air, the metal gets oxidized. Notice the bottom center piece: it is recently broken to depict a fresh surface. Nergaal (talk) 09:55, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I see, I must have misread the caption as a list of different entities. Purpy Pupple (talk) 10:11, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Manganese electrolytic and 1cm3 cube.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]